Inspiration

The Europeans that went to America were the ones doing that though

Meanwhile, the Americans that didn't even put "new" in front of the city name and just called it Paris, Texas or some shit.

There are 15 cities in the world named Paris.

14 of them are in America.

I mean, it's a bunch of immigrants naming things after their home. Or it's a bunch colonists claiming things... For their home.

And then there's the Amish, who gave their towns names like Intercourse and Bird in Hand.

I think there is above 50 cities named "Villeneuve" in France (literraly meaning "New City)

People have always had a lack of creativity.

When the Greeks were settling around the Mediterranean they founded many 'New Cities', (Neapolis). One remained a 'new city' for long enough for the name to evolve to Naples.

The Phoenicians did the same, in their language 'New City' was Qart Hadasht, we now call it Carthage. One of the Carthages in what is now Spain was conquered by Rome and to differentiate it from the Capital of the Carthaginians they called it Carthago Nova, essentially New New City.

Laughs in Newcastle, Newmarket, Newport, Newbury, Newton and Newspaper

It's weird they went with new instead of better. Maybe they weren't very optimistic.

Even old New York used to be New Amsterdam...

My favorite is East Palestine, Ohio, named for being east of Palestine, Ohio. It is very far west of Palestine.

But obviously pronounced wrong.

New Prague, MN, for example (/nu pɹeɪg/)

Tbf a lot of the ‘new[city]’ was given their names by the British empire expanding their land. Just look at Australian state names.. The Americans doing this in more recent times are simply following suit.

Europeans named the towns. People From Europe.

texas didnt even bother adding the "new"

Also Canada did this a bunch too

*Europeans naming cities in America

New Zealand, named by America.

Come to NY.. we have Florida, and Poland within 50 miles of each other.

No one even mentioned Georgia, the country that constantly gets advertising targeted for Georgia, the state.

After they were actually American, they resorted to "What it was called by the people who lived here first, but pronounced wrong"

No New Shitterton, though. :(

Poland, Indiana
Poland, Maine
Poland, Chautauqua County, New York
Poland, Herkimer County, New York
Poland, Ohio
Poland Township, Mahoning County, Ohio
Poland, Wisconsin

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland_(disambiguation)

Explain new Mexico then. /s

To be fair, have you ever been to regular York? I have, it sucked. New York is a slight to moderate improvement.

Canada did it right, and just named the city without adding new.

London Ontario, Paris Ontario, Berlin Ontario (before it was renamed over a minor European dispute).

Unfortunately Nova Scotia was already called that before it joined.

Big Jian Yang energy

It's even more entertaining.

For example Manna-hatta was renamed by Europeans (specifically the Dutch) New Amsterdam and later renamed again by Europeans (this time the English) as New York.

By the time there were officially "Americans" (i.e. after the Independence of the United States) the deed was already done.

Wait until you hear about Latin American colonizers taking inspiration in the cities of "Granada", "Córdoba" and "Santiago" to name their cities "Granada", "Córdoba" and "Santiago". At least Venezuela changed a couple letters from Venezia.

Still better than I'd do naming things. It'd just be Landplace 1, Landplace 2, etc.

No new Scunthorpe though, for some reason 🤔

Sometimes they didn't even do that much. Which is why there's a Portland in Maine and a Portland in Oregon

It’s actually more like “Noo”.

You need all the inspiration you can get .